Journalism is the pilot fish of liberalism - and if anything, The New York Times is the pilot fish of journalism.Taking on the NYT means taking on a brutal PR assault; broadcast journalism has no lodestar for its putatively "objective" reports except that everyone takes for granted, and demands that you take for granted, the objectivity of the NYT. If they didn't herd together like that - if they were, horror of horrors, actually independent - there would be discrepancies among the reports and the facade of "objectivity" of journalism would crack, affecting all journalism outlets.
So, herd together they do. It's a "conspiracy," but it's done in plain sight - and we are then conned into thinking that it is good for us.
Clarence Thomas' "hi-tech lynching" is the best you could expect if you seriously challenged the vast left wing conspiracy in court. And the court would be as reliable in adjudicating your case as it was in vetting the blatantly unconstitutional McCain Feingold law which SCOTUS sprinkled holy water on a while back.